Intern (Engineering)

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Job Description:

This position is in the Advanced Development team of Microchip's FPGA Division. Microchip is a major supplier of low-power and highly-reliable field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), a type of programmable logic chip. Our FPGAs are used in a wide variety of applications, including: embedded vision; digital signal processing; machine learning; industrial and medical equipment; and satellites.

Microchip is also a pioneer in embedding RISC-V processors in FPGAs. The successful applicant will work as part a core team that develops future FPGA fabric architectures and collaborates with design engineering to develop, verify, and integrate the fabric architecture with other device components such as IO, hard IP blocks, configuration, and security.

Responsibilities will include a mixture of the following:

• Learn about development of FPGA fabric architectures that support a range of applications across embedded control solutions, communications, industrial, and aerospace.
• Contribute to evaluation of logic and routing for future FPGA architectures, and help drive speed, power, and cost targets.
• Develop example FPGA application benchmarks, either by coding them in Verilog and high-level synthesis tools, or by programming generation algorithms to generate designs automatically.
• Develop and contribute to unique software tools to support our efforts, applying graph algorithms, statistical modeling, and combinatorial optimization.
• Analyze and share your data with various groups within the company, including Software Engineering, Circuit Design, Marketing and Application Engineering. This broad organizational exposure will provide an unusual opportunity for on-going learning and potential fulltime hire.

Requirements/Qualifications:

This role will contribute to future product directions and so experience in the FPGA industry is a desirable pre-requisite. Demonstration of analysis and design implementation in adjacent disciplines such as ASIC design may also be acceptable.

• 1-2 years or more of Bachelor/Masters/PhD in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Statistics or Physics.
• Some intern, work, or research experience in programmable architectures, applications implementation, or other relevant experience. Familiarity with engineering development on Linux.
• Practical coding experience in Verilog and Python or C/C++.
• Familiarity with at least one of these areas: digital logic design; data structures and algorithms; linear algebra; digital signal processing; processor architecture; use of compiler tools and compilation techniques.
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills, willingness to document work products.

Travel Time:

0% - 25%

Physical Attributes:

Feeling, Hearing, Other, Reaching, Seeing, Talking, Works Alone, Works Around Others

Physical Requirements:

90% sitting 10% standing 100% indoors

Pay Range:

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Benefits of working at Microchip

The hourly pay range for this position, which could be performed in California, is $19.00 - $30.00.*

*Range is dependent on numerous factors including job location, skills and experience.

Microchip Technology Inc is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

For more information on applicable equal employment regulations, please refer to the EEO is the Law Poster and the EEO is the Law Poster Supplement. Please also refer to the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.